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FOR THE FESTIVAL: Debut SELECTED THEATRE CREDITS: 3 Seasons at The Stratford Festival; The Overcoat (CanStage/International Tour); Cirque du Soleil (Dralion International Tour to over 30 countries); High Life (Arts Club Theatre); The Election (Theatre Passe Muraille); Mary's Wedding (Sudbury Theatre Centre); The Cherry Orchard (Modern Times) SELECTED TV/FILM CREDITS: Murdoch Mysteries; The...
FOR THE FESTIVAL: Debut SELECTED THEATRE: Tyler was forced into acting by his grade eight English teacher and hasn't yet found a way to stop. He's been seen on stage across the country and internationally....
For the Festival: Director, Packing Up by Alison Lawrence | 2025 Fostered Playwrights Festival Selected Theatre: Directing: WHERE I WAS WHEN, LITTLE WOMEN (University of Windsor), THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (St Lawrence Shakespeare Festival), NOBODY’S CHILDREN (Yellow Door Theatre Project), GROUNDED (theatreSix), DROWNING GIRLS & TUESDAYS AND...
Jasmine is a recent Dora Award winning actor for outstanding performance by an individual in the TYA category for her role in YPTs Truth. She is a Jamaican - Canadian artist, born and raised in Toronto, where she currently lives and works, where she first...
An actor, director and playwright for over 40 years, Marni was Artistic Director of Cullen Dinner Theatre, an Equity house in North Toronto; performed and directed for Summer Theatres; and acted in film, TV, and commercials. In 2020, she founded Act 3 Theatre - a professional-collective...
Alison is an actor, playwright, writer and independent theatre creator based in Toronto. Alison’s adaptation of the book Onion Skins and Peach Fuzz: The Farmerettes, premiered in summer 2024 at 4th Line Theatre and at the Blyth Festival. Her plays have been produced on stages from coast...
Paddyman, Declan O'Sullivan, was born and raised in Co Kildare, Ireland, not far from Irish ballad legend Christy Moore. He started playing music in the pubs at the age of 15 with his father. He says that it was there he learned the importance of building...
As a multi-genre artist, Vocalist Melissa-Marie Shriner moves adeptly between the jazz, singer/songwriter, and classical worlds. Ms. Shriner has curated, directed and performed in numerous one-woman shows and collaborative concerts, and is known for her moving song interpretations. She is the creative force behind the ‘Melissa-Marie Sings’ concert series, now in...
Foster Festival: Go for Gold, Audrey Pham (reading) Stage Credits (Selected): Billy Elliot (Neptune), 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Stephenville), The Phantom of the Opera (Opera on the Avalon), Area of Uncertainty, The Servant of Two Masters, The Seagull, Julius Caesar, Macbeth (Perchance), The Big...
FOR THE FESTIVAL: A Niagara Christmas Carol (Staged Reading), Screwball Comedy Claire has spent 16 seasons at the Shaw Festival and 10 seasons at the Stratford Festival. Select Shaw Festival credits include Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Human Heart, Candida, the Shadow of a Doubt, Sherlock Holmes...
